Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an Address of Welcome. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below.
学生会邀请了来自某大学的李教授作一个关于计算机人工智能的演讲。作为主持人，你在演讲前作一个开场白。请写一份简明的欢迎词。（1. 简明介绍演讲者；2. 计算机人工智能的作用；3. 表示欢迎等）
Address of Welcome
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11. A) Neither of them has a favorable opinion of the service.
B) The woman is having a terrible time serving in the restaurant.
C) Both agree that it is time for the restaurant to fire some staff.
D) The man thinks the restaurant is all right, but the woman doesn’t.
12. A) He eats too much when he plays chess.
B) He won’t join the chess club.
C) Chess is his favorite game.
D) He doesn’t enjoy chess as much as he used to.
13. A) Ann should shut the door.
B) Ann should be quieter.
C) Ann shouldn’t have stayed at the library so long.
D) Ann shouldn’t have returned home.
14. A) She has another meeting all day.
B) She feels the grade is all right.
C) She thinks it would be wrong to change the grade.
D) She can meet with the student that afternoon.
15. A) The clothes don’t look clean to him.
B) He doesn’t intend to get the clothes.
C) The woman can pick out her own clothes.
D) The woman should stop staring at his clothes.
16. A) She won’t be able to come.
B) She’s not going to graduate.
C) She has a week to do the work.
D) She’ll visit her sister in a week.
17. A) She thinks a hair dryer.
B) She wants to know what’s making all the noise.
C) She isn’t sure how practical the man’s gift is.
D) She can’t hear anything when the hair dryer is on.
18. A) She hasn’t read the passage.
B) She doesn’t understand it either.
C) She cannot read it in darkness.
D) She suggests that the man read it.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
19 A) She received an emergency call the previous day.
B) She has never been to the city before.
C) She would go there to spend the weekend with her sister.
D) She was invited to attend her sister’s wedding.
20. A) In less than an hour. C) At 11:13.
B) In a minute. D) At noon.
21. A) Someone to talk with.
B) Interesting books to read.
C) Something to eat and drink.
D) Puzzles and crossword games.
22. A) Thirteen pennies. C) A pound.
B) Fifty pennies. D) Half price.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. A) It’s rather expensive.
B) It’s too small for the man.
C) It has plenty of light.
D) It doesn’t have many closets.
24. A) Each tenant is given a parking place.
B) It’s difficult to find a parking place.
C) The tenant has to pay to park.
D) The tenant can use any space in the parking area.
25. A) He’s unimpressed by what the woman told him.
B) He doubts he can afford it.
C) He doesn’t think it’s suitable for him.
D) He’s enthusiastic about it.
Section B:
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. A) Their cost is very low.
B) They can be used in many countries.
C) The will not pollute the environment.
D) They need little experimentation.
27. A) It gathers heat from the sun.
B) It pushes a turbine in a dam.
C) It causes winds to turn a windmill.
D) It warms up the land along the coast.
28. A) Slowing down the Earth’s rotation.
B) Harming the coastline.
C) Changing the wave pattern.
D) Polluting the water.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. A) A study of a research corporation.
B) One of life’s essential.
C) The reasons why people don’t like breakfast.
D) Breakfast and human health.
30. A) Taking no breakfast does good to one’s health.
B) Taking no breakfast does no harm to one’s health.
C) Scientific evidence is not enough.
D) Eating little in the morning is good for us.
31. A) Anyone without breakfast does improve his performance.
B) Not having breakfast improve one’s performance.
C) Having breakfast improve one’s performance.
D) Performance is not related to whether having breakfast or not.
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. A) How Ray Kroc made money for the brothers.
B) How to start our own restaurant.
C) A restaurant in California in 1948.
D) How the McDonald’s business started and grew.
33. A) They wanted customers to pay less.
B) Customers would get their meals quickly.
C) They could use plastic plates.
D) They didn’t need waiters and waitresses.
34. A) The food was delicious and healthful.
B) It was quick and cheap.
C) It was famous in the city.
D) It was different and new.
35. A) They could make a lot of friends there.
B) They liked the brothers.
C) They enjoyed the food, the toys and the games there.
D) Their parents asked them to go there.
Section C:
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Britain is changing more rapidly than ever before in her long history. In some respects the new British society (36) ____________ general world trends. In other respects it has kept its own (37) _________ flavor. British society is evolving, that is to say, developing and suiting itself to rapidly changing conditions. Evolution rather than revolution or violent change is a special (38) _________of the British way of life.
This is shown in one way by how the British people vote at (39) ___________. The Conservative and Labor Parties have controlled the (40) __________ scene for the last fifty years, but today neither party can any longer be sure from which class or income group its (41) _________ will come. Not long ago you would have expected the working classes always to vote for the Labor Party. The word “labor” means “hard work” – (42) ___________hard work with the hands. The Labor Party is the party which is supposed to (43) __________ the “working man”. You would also have expected the upper and middle classes to vote for the Conservative Party. The word conservative means “keeping things as they are”. The Conservative Party (44) _______________________________________________________________________________. In some respects traditional British “class distinctions” are becoming less clear, and you can be less sure how people will vote. Many members of the middle class support social reform. Many ordinary working people (45)_______________________________________________________ __________________________________. But the old divisions between the classes remain. Many Conservatives fear that the sovereignty of Parliament is being threatened by the Trade Unions. Many workers are afraid that the Conservative bosses are trying to keep their wages down. But class feelings have not reached a personal level yet. (46) ____________________ _________________________________________________________________.
